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Finance Minister Bob Richards said the PLP encouraging a bank to increase credit and give loans ten years ago, “aiding and abetting” the economic downturn.
During the House of Assembly on Friday, the minister said he recently discovered a 2003 memora...
DATE: Nov 18, 2013
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A same-sex couple was turned away from several rental apartments and treated with hostility by Bermuda Immigration, it has been alleged.
In a recent Facebook posting Jameka Smith wrote that she and her wife, Charlene, struggled to find a place to liv...
DATE: Nov 18, 2013
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Major changes must be made to fix the unsustainable Government pension system, according to an economist.
Economist Robert Stewart said the SAGE Commission Report clearly highlights that difficult decisions must be made to fix the massively underfund...
DATE: Nov 18, 2013
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Independent MP Terry Lister has called for the creation of a price control board to limit the increasing cost of essential foods.
Mr Lister said that while the recently announced weekly ten percent discount at several of the Island’s supermarkets had...
DATE: Nov 18, 2013
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A single mother who admitted conspiring to supply heroin was this afternoon sentenced to five years in prison.
Shakeda Davis, 28, pleaded guilty earlier this year to conspiring to supply a controlled drug between an unknown date and April 25, 2012, a...
DATE: Nov 18, 2013
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A UK MP has questioned why Bermuda’s flag was taken down from London’s Parliament Square days before Remembrance Day.
Andrew Rosindell, the chairman of the British Overseas Territories All Party Parliamentary Group, said in a letter to Prime Minister...
DATE: Nov 15, 2013
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More than $100,000 of pledges and donations to help the Philippines in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan have been received by the Bermuda Red Cross.
The massive storm struck the Southeast Asia island nation on Friday, with sustained winds of 195 miles...
DATE: Nov 15, 2013
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Public Safety Minister Michael Dunkley has not ruled out the possibility of legalising marijuana in Bermuda — although he is personally against it.
Mr Dunkley said yesterday he doesn’t feel the legalisation of the drug is right for the Island but rem...
DATE: Nov 15, 2013
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Deadbeat dads who refuse to pay child support could face travel restrictions, according to Minister of Community, Culture and Sports Wayne Scott.
Mr Scott said that Government is still discussing “creative solutions” for those who fail to pay child m...
DATE: Nov 14, 2013
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Government expects to move forward soon with establishing land title registration on the Island, two years after legislation to do so was approved.
The Land Title Registration Act, which allows the move from deeds-based property transactions to a par...
DATE: Nov 14, 2013
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